The other day I was watching a full season of "Hardcore Skyrim" by MrRhexx, a Skyrim Youtuber. He used a large variety of very interesting mods, but one of them stood out to me. It was eating foods that gave you for example 50% faster stamina, health, and magicka regeneration. And for the carrots better Night Vision for 60 seconds. I thought they were very cool and interesting and should have been used in Skyrim without having a mod. What do you think? yummmmmm
I think the point of food being relatively weak in Skyrim was so that all players are given a reasonably powerful and easily accessible crafting system. I think having foods that were improved much, if at all, would seriously gimp the alchemy skill - soups/stews/Elsewyr Fondue are already very powerful as is!